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Eggner’s Ferry: Everybody Was Running Back And Forth

Posted by – January 27, 2012

WKDZ did a great job covering the bridge hit and collapse of the Eggner’s Ferry bridge. Of all the coverage they did I want to highlight one interview. It is a classic that will live forever in the genre of country-fried disaster interviews.

 MP3: Robert Parker Interview – (C) WKDZ Radio

WKDZ: Did you get out of the vehicle after this happened and look down there?

RP: Yes.

WKDZ: Did you yell at anyone on the boat? Did anyone yell at you?

RP: Nuh Uh, everybody was running back and forth.

WKDZ: Did any of them know you were up there?

RP: I don’t know that they did or not.

Everybody was running back and forth, I’ll bet they were!

Crooked People And Their Crooked Thinking

Posted by – October 29, 2011

Paula Russell speaks at CHUMC

Paula Russell speaks at CHUMC

I hope this will be the closest I ever come to professional thievery. Paula Russell from Aaron McNeil House was discovered victimizing the organization she was hired to lead. In the initial report she was charged with stealing only from AMH.

The former executive director of the Aaron McNeil House in Hopkinsville is charged with using funds from the non-profit agency to pay more than $23,000 worth of bills.

Then the next day more details were released saying that Paula Russell has done this before.

It happened 8-years ago and law enforcement and court officials say she was going by the name Paula Nightingale. Russell, or Nightingale, pled guilty in December 2003 to three counts of false bookkeeping and one count of felony theft after being indicted on more than 47 various charges. She was ordered to pay nearly 84-thousand dollar in restitution directly to Pasminco Incorporated.

Christian Heights also had our interactions with Ms. Russell/Nightingale when we collected 1100 units of food for Aaron McNeil’s food pantry. On the day when Ms. Russell visited us to receive the donation. She gave the congregation a backhanded compliment saying that she felt welcomed into the church even though CHUMC is 100% white and she is black. It was rude and unnecessary for her to mention it. Her comments reveal what is first on her mind. Are you black or white? Are you the “oppressed” or the oppressor?

Non-story Published as News

Posted by – March 25, 2011

Update: Source16 TV

Put this in the Dog-Bites-Man category of desperate news reporting. WKDZ is reporting that a 2.4 magnitude earthquake occurred near Paducah on March 24th. The earthquake was felt by no one and no damage was caused by this non-quake earthquake. Somebody tell me where is the story on this?

madrid earthquakes

39 quakes

During the last week there were 38 earthquakes in this region surrounding the Madrid fault that no one cared about. Where is the love for them if that one in Paducah was so important?

Work Now solves the Wrong Problem the Wrong Way

Posted by – July 16, 2010

President Obama sprinkled some more money from Heaven his Stash. The Work Now program offered by the WKWIB subsidizes the wages of unemployed parents for a two month period. Julie Andrews claims these employees are ‘free’ to the employers who hire these temporary workers but this is not true and it never will be true. First of all, the five million dollars used to fund this program had to be confiscated from other businesses that haven’t failed yet. There is no net economic gain to moving money from one pocket to another; in fact this transaction results in a net loss because the government takes a dollar from Company A and gives a dime to Company B. Second, companies don’t need help in finding employees. Human Resources is already jammed full of job applications that will never get interviewed because they have no plans to hire for the foreseeable future. Companies only hire new employees when there is demand for new product and not a moment sooner. If the Democrats were interested in creating jobs they could do so at the stroke of a pen.

Jindal vs. Obama: Time to End the Drilling Moratorium

Obama’s Offshore Moratorium Continues Killing Jobs in the Gulf
EPA Regulations Cause Drought in California

End the Moratorium Now! America has all of the oil we need if we remove the regulations that prevent us from drilling.

Interest-free loans and Unicorns

Posted by – April 14, 2010

Again with the “interest-free” nonsense. The new middle school is going to be built with interest-free bonds funded with Federal stimulus dollars.

IF THE DISTRICT HAD USED A TRADITIONAL BOND PROGRAM TO FINANCE THE NEW SCHOOL, THE FINAL BILL WOULD HAVE BEEN ROUGHLY 41-MILLION DOLLARS, BUT WITH THE 14-MILLION DOLLARS SAVED FROM NOT PAYING INTEREST AND THE 7-MILLION DOLLARS EARNED IN INTEREST FROM THE ESCROW FUND, THE NEW MIDDLE SCHOOL WILL BE BUILT AT A COST OF 20-MILLION DOLLARS TO THE TAXPAYERS OF CHRISTIAN COUNTY.

The money being spent here doesn’t magically appear because somebody chased down a leprechaun and stole his pot of gold. The money is generated via three methods all of which are very bad for us. The first is through selling U.S. Treasuries that earn interest to the investor. We already have a crushing level of debt; we can’t afford to borrow another penny period! The second is through the printing of paper currency. The unregulated printing of paper demeans the value of all dollars in circulation. The third and final method is through direct taxation. Which will be the number one topic on April 15th.

WKDZ normally provides excellent news coverage but this story is really no better than if the station had reported unicorns flying through the streets of Hopkinsville. The concept of an interest-free loan does not stand up to any kind of smell test at all. To borrow money is never free unless someone else agrees to eat the cost of not charging interest.

Worthless Carbon Credits

Posted by – August 20, 2009

From the WKDZ website, they are promoting the Blue Heron in the station’s “Business Spotlight” section. The Blue Heron is a local business in Cadiz that sells organic and “green” products.

Even though we are blue, we are a shade of green. We are the only Co2 offset company in this region. Part of your purchase goes toward global tree replantation to help our planet and to offset carbon footprints

The changing weather pattern in the previous year or two is visible evidence that man-made Global Warming Climate Change is fiction. The Weather Channel takes every opportunity to broadcast stories about masses of people succumbing to heatstroke but you’ll never hear about the unusually cool, wet weather that’s happening right here in Kentucky. Neither will they draw any conclusion from the harsher winter weather coming soon or the weather that’s already happened.

Who says carbon dioxide is bad anyway? Is it not an arbitrary decision to call a gas produced by mammals and required for plant life suddenly to be an evil menace. With no human intervention whatsoever the oceans already absorbs and releases large amounts of carbon dioxide. NatGeo makes the mistake of assuming CO2 is a deadly poison. However, the reader should consider they admitted the ocean holds large amounts of carbon easily and naturally. Why should we assume that man-made carbon would be an undue burden.

In conclusion, I’ve never met anyone that works at the Blue Heron. I’m sure they are all very nice people but they are still wrong about the fuzzy, feel-good, save-the-earth mantra. Carbon credits will not remove one single ounce of carbon from the atmosphere. After the Cap and Tax system was setup in the UK, organized crime quickly figured out how they could game the system. Not to mention people like Al Gore that set the odds and own the system, the house always wins. The Blue Heron should not be buying carbon credits at all. That money operates a corrupt system wishing to gain control over the entire economy.

Local boy: Brian Brennan

Posted by – May 9, 2009

Brian Brennan is a soldier with the Currahee out of Ft. Campbell. He lost both of his legs during combat but now he walks with prosthetics. His story is embedded below. More…

Trigg County Country Ham Festival

Posted by – October 11, 2008

The Trigg County HamFest is almost over, last day will be tomorrow. I paid a visit and took pictures while I was there. WKDZ Radio was there in a big way. Broadcasting live remotes from inside the festival.